Yep, I baked them, but there's not a ring to remove. The glass is attached to the housing with a black epoxy.

I'm trying to remove the lens for two reasons...
1. To cut the center part of the black crosshairs so that the TRS H3C bulb will fit
2. According to Hella, these aren't suppose to be mounted up side down because of the way it throws the light. So I was also going to rotate the lens 180 degrees to mount on my Elusive Elements light bar.

I'm not sure on the specifics, but I guess some lights are only meant to be mounted one way due to the way they are designed to reflect and throw light. For some reason I thought to ask Hella about it, and they said that the 500's could not be mounted upside down because of the way they're designed.

The 1000's are larger diameter and depth than the 500's. If you go to myhellalights.com and look at both the BM 500's and the BM 1000's you'll see the measurements in the photos for each light.

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for some reason i dont c the measurements... im jus trying to figure out if the 1000s are too big to fit behind the grill... i c people using 500s behind the grill but i dunno bout the 1000s. i was offered a set dirt cheap but only want them if i could fitem behind my satoshi grill...